Well, that will be pretty preferential.... As stated before, I love the Polycom IP500. I think it is just a great phone for less than $200. It configs easily once you get used to the config file and Polycoms have great speaker phones.
Many love the Ciscos... Admittedly a beautiful phone but harder to configure as I understand it and you have to get a license... They tend to cost a little more but they are artwork in motion as far as looks go. With 100 phones, I would seriously consider ease of setup. To that note, Polycom is supposedly now supporting HTTPS download of config scripts which means you could create a repository for your files on an FTP server and secutely transfer the configs over the internet. Pretty cool. Basically, you can go to any voipsupply.com or other and look for phones that are asthetically pleasing and cost over $150. Even some of the phones that cost around the $100 are nice. How fancy do you really want and how will you manage configuration? What other info can you give on the project? Are you proficient with Asterisk and do you understand issues of SIP (firewall traversal, etc)? Thanks, Wiley -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of brandt Milczewski Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:00 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones wanted. I'm looking at setting up Asterisk for a completely IP environment. All intercompany calls. I work for a ski area. I currently use a 3Com Superstack for in our office. And an old small town phone system for up at the mountain. The phone system is dying and I'm hoping to bring IP to replace the old phones. It will be about 100 phones at about 20 locations all within about 4 miles of each other. I'm looking for tips on the types of phones to look at. Cost is secondary only to reliabity. Any tips? TIA, -brandt _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
